the withdrawal of. troops from afghanistan is one of the main pledges and barack obama's state of the union address though we take the time here at. the foreign policy area. to talk about. saddam's broken israeli media blitz a shroud of secrecy over the death of an alleged secret agent in custody despite the government working very hard to keep it all underground. and with some of the highest taxes in the world the wealthy take flight to protect their cash on small businesses which is saying it's taking too big a. pleasure

to have you with us here today on live in moscow with your news from around the world. barack obama used the first state of the union address so of his second term to try and appease lawmakers on tax payers making fresh promises to boost the economy and slash debt on the issue of foreign policy though the u.s. president did announce that thirty four thousand troops will be leaving afghanistan by next february and he said now we know joins us here on the program to give us the latest on the american president's state of the union a mixed bag of issues certainly domestic take in the forefront of the speech some foreign policy issues though one of the highlights a lot of numbers a big announcement on afghanistan certainly top the address after over

a decade of war troops are coming home in twenty fourteen as obama put it obama points out that there are two missions now one to prepare handing afghan forces to take over so that the country does not slip into chaos again the key word here again it almost seems as if it's now a stable place just today reports of ten civilians killed by a nato strike targeting taliban insurgents and while obama spent most of his speech talking about the economy and taxes he failed to mention that so far the u.s. has invested over one hundred billion dollars in reconstruction of afghanistan and that this year alone it's expected another thirty billion dollars could be spent in eight this as the afghan state is rated one of the most corrupt in the world despite red flags from a watchdog monitory bad aid they say there's no way of ensuring all this one is going to the right place or whose hands the cash is falling into and that it's too

dangerous in many places in afghanistan to safely observe what's happening where former and. some have become very rich including western officials well most afghans have been left with nothing. many countries thrive on this war they make money there in their un people others who are lined up and making fat salaries and while the life of afghan ordinary afghans have not changed we of course we have had some things like media. communication and this and that but. in relation to what was available and what could have been done it's. a drop in the bucket now obama also spoke of defending democracy across the globe most notably the arab spring which is previously been held by his administration a great success especially libya egypt and tunisia those countries of course now still drowning in chaos and violence two years on well obama has changed his tune

a bit now saying well it's going to be messy those transitions also his tone on syria a bit distant considering a year ago the u.s. was insisting president off to moscow a lot of speculation about intervention was going on now the president saying they will continue to put pressure on the syrian leader but another pledge from obama to continue to push for legal and durable policy on counterterrorism no mention here of guantanamo drones or wiretapping and obama mentioned internet freedoms well sort of he flaunted signing an executive order on cyber defense but the order is really seen as a response to congress's refusal to pass the cyber intelligence sharing and protection act or says last year in light of serious privacy concerns in other words a loophole is now available for cispa to effectively be put into action where you

have a very or so with the highs and lows and the main points there of president obama's state of the union address on tuesday he said no i think you're. well. charting the future course of his country there have been others that have been taking aim at his plans for that of stricter gun controls. in the bar and listen regarding your ears and listen to what people are saying the protesters in the state of new york demonstrate against the. slapped on them by the authorities following the sandy hook school massacre last december more than just a bit later this hour here on our city. a veil of silence over the death of a top secret prisoner has been lifted by the israeli media which had been gagged by a court order it surfaced following a report in the australian press about a man linked to the israeli secret service who hanged himself in prison after months of being held in secret. leads the investigation. israeli prime minister

benjamin netanyahu summoned the editors of all the major israeli news outlets to an emergency meeting and in that meeting he asked them not to publish the story saying and i'm quoting that it would be embarrassing to a certain government agency not at first the editors did listen and all references to the original australian report were removed from israeli news websites but later it was brought back not only to the web sites but also to all the radio and t.v. stations here and certainly sincerely also this morning it has been the headline news everyone though is referencing it as a report from australia not what we understand is that israeli parliament terence did oss the justice minister to confirm whether or not this report was true they also demanded to know if they were other prisoners who were being held in secret in israeli jails the justice minister's comments were and i'm quoting that there is no doubt that if this information is accurate this is something that needs to be

checked state senses gave news operates in israel the green light to report on this parliamentary debate but nothing else but of course we're witnessing now that the reporting has gone much further than just this debate such a gag order it is important to say it is highly unusual in israel way a statement a tree since it's normally an hour of the local media to quote someone saucers on controversial topics such as the alleged israeli strike in syria last month what we also understand is that various human rights groups such as human rights watch as well as the israeli civil rights movement have been aware of this particular incident for quite some time now the australian media is reporting that this man came to live in israel when he was a youngster he made what is called and he was recruiting on the stand by the messiah these raided secret service something went wrong and we've been given no reason for him being imprisoned but they respect the nation that it would have had to be connected somehow with espionage and sensitive state secrets the. former

foreign minister avigdor lieberman has said that left wing parliamentarians have damaged israeli security by bringing this issue to the fore in the first place. articles want to pull us we're reporting now tax hikes are still the default plan for e.u. nations trying to get out of debt and while the super rich can flee to places that won't take such a hefty slice of their cash small business is left behind livelihoods are at risk. investigators he's a leading man of stage and screen however european heads of state will be hoping share our debt by do doesn't become the leader of a tax exodus by the super rich front lawns decision to push through a seventy five percent top rate of tax on those earning over one million euros saw the actor up sticks and head to russia europe has some of the highest rates of taxation in the world with many giving the lion's share of the things to the state

of vermont feel the need can be a balancing act of course you want to run a successful business but if you make over a certain amount you find yourself paying out huge quantities of tax over fifty percent don't. there are warnings for europe that when compared to low tax countries like russia they could lose their competitive edge if they're a country with low taxes and with high taxes capital flow well to country with low taxes in the same is true for people with talent there's always going to be people that think the taxes are too high but a growing number actually starting to think that it's becoming detrimental to the development of business but he can't owns a haulage company in munich currently he employs around ninety people transporting everything from the small to the big and bulky all over mainland europe he says that lowering the current rate of tax would not just make big changes to his

business but also to the lives of his staff that's where not only can he is with us on him. he would be super first i could pay higher salaries this is a very important issue right now due to the rise in the cost of living also i can invest more into the company and grow the business even employ more people everyone benefits something that is impossible under the current tax system and that those in power argue that the problem in european countries right now is that taxpayers want to have the best of both worlds big management of the phenomenon we face regarding taxes is that everyone wants to pay as little as possible however no one is willing to give up the services that those taxes go to pay for. few signs of any major tax cuts on the horizon in your businesses like this one going to have to continue to struggle to bring home the bacon but it comes to saving fifty

development these are all other. time faith in teaching school spread across the more than two decades of being under the previous regime leaving many though about the possible spread of radical. islam in schools is good for young minds the report is just ahead for you here on. the u.n. security council to tighten sanctions on north korea. international regulations and explode. under a remote mountain range the details. you

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pleasure to have you with us here on the program today on the research i live on arts he. now religious education it's making a serious comeback in tunisia is two years after the regime was banned the teaching of islam was toppled and the current government has no control over private muslim schools springing up all over the country and the worry is that they could be spreading extremism is ridiculous go visit a school where the koran is the main subject. tunisia's learned some tough lessons in the wake of its revolt but now the report card for what's going on in its schools is facing examination in the school in one of the poorest districts of the tunisian capital children come to learn about the qur'an and the way of life of true muslims religious education was banned under the old regime but it's making a comeback in a big way the rise of islam islam has led to an increase in the number of religious schools are springing up across the country these schools are private operating

outside of the control of state officials who have no say over what's being taught in these schools and some worry that this may lead to a rise in the number of young extremists even many religious experts agree filling young minds with religious doctrines may not be the best way to bring up children. what. i read in one of the papers sent by a three year old girl to her mother with a message my beloved mom teach me about the afterlife the same way you teach about this life is this a way to teach three year old children yes we can see it clearly attempts to brainwash these children with dr mooney carried out an extensive research of religious schools and to nice to find out whether critics were right to say that they were damaging to the country's post revolutionary development she found most schools were primarily focused on teaching strict islamic values without worrying about the effect these methods may have on youngsters. i have noticed that all

female teachers at these schools where any cub while teaching you can see her face this is in contradiction with what's known in psychology as communication how can she communicate with the kids if her face is covered emotions and movement of vital to kids and social interaction such things do not contradict our values and morals . but parents who send their children to study at these schools believe they are on the right track. educating your. children with muslim values is the way to ensure that they will lead a proper life from childhood studying the koran improves memory increases thinking abilities and says the right course for the rest of their lives. at the moment not even the ministry of education is able to say exactly how many religious schools there are in tunisia after the revolution they sprung up over the country many operating without license from the state the government has acknowledged the problem but has its hands full trying to keep the economy together. is on the

backburner he says absence of control that especially worrisome usually on top of the concerns about extremist salafist groups gaining ground. to force these groups don't believe in democracy the republic and freedom they consider them to be against their religion they want to impose their way of life onto new zealand by force as if they know better than other people. after the arab spring revolt tunisians were eager to embrace what they hoped would be a new way of life but with radical islam permeating more and more spheres of everyday life these children's future i mean not be exactly what many parents had hoped for in their quest for freedom and democracy in tunisia. r.t. . many more stories and brilliant videos. from the web site for example. of new york.

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with us today. offered to find the international community and the. most powerful nuclear yet. conducted in. china north korea's. recent leadership changes in the region have created an atmosphere. could be applied or are already being applied so it's really fall into. a lot of diplomatic pressure on china to use its leverage with north korea and it's and i imagine that officials in beijing must have known that this this was coming probably in the next few days and it certainly is it couldn't have happened at

a worse time internationally speaking it's the lunar new year in china so basically the entire country is on holiday and in the u.s. there is no confirmed secretary of defense or central intelligence director so it's a very interesting time crow that threw into that the wild card of xi jinping we don't know much about him or how he's going to lead china and the fact that kim jong un is a relatively new leader as well you also have the new army government in japan and there's a lot of wildcards in this mix to see how this is going to shake out but i think on the question of china specifically i think it does have the most leverage over north korea at this point and certainly a lot of aid and support comes from china so i think they have a lot of pressure that they can put on north korea at this point and u.n. nuclear inspectors are in iran pushing for more access to secret facilities that's iran said it's open for talks and may allow a visit to the parchin military site which some suspect is used for atomic experiments and nuclear security expert matthew mcallester he says it's a promising move but only talks can proceed forward. if the international

society and i ate meat inspectors are allowed in that this is definitely going to the very good sign from it on our to the international society that it has to be mentioned that. this would not be the first time i would go into power to. the i.a.e.a. board if i'm not mistaken three times and they have not found anything but there are still concerns you have raised it on that has not yet replied to questions posed to them one thing many analysts attempt to agree on is that in order to in order to stop them for crimes that the ring in crisis as there is a need for direct hearing in the american talks and this is something that we still are not seeing at all. all right a world update time here on starting with thailand where nineteen insurgents were killed off they launched a pre-dawn assault on

a military base in the country's south over one hundred fighters in the marine camp on the malaysian border the troops repelled the attack suffering no injuries in the raid that was considered to be the heaviest militant of time for several years. in bahrain police used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse protesters in the country's capital and one day before the two year anniversary of the uprising people marched in the streets carrying flags and chanting anti-government slogans accusing the ruling regime of corruption and human rights violations. have been staging demonstrations since early two thousand and eleven demanding political reform and they now want the outright removal of the ruling family blaming them for the violence. and it has reportedly handed over the syrian embassy in the capital doha to the opposition syrian national coalition opposition leader and these are all hierarchy who claims he was recently appointed as ambassador to kata

says the handover is just a formal procedure to acknowledge his new post the national coalition was formed in doha eighteen months ago and recognized by other gulf states syria's legitimate representative. right now a nearly four million british adults have never had any form of paid work small than the population of wales and a recent court ruling slams some of the schemes to get people into work as unlawful . reports. university graduate kate riley and forty year old jamison wilson succeeded in their claims that their unpaid work scheme that they were made to take part in was indeed a little for them a small but significant victory now the lawyers for that ruling say it could mean that thousands of people who have their benefits stripped from the under similar circumstances in this government work program could reclaim that money that could

leave the door open to the millions of pounds compensation that would be footed by the taxpayer of course that's causing a lot of concerns are teeth that its own investigation into the work program in a response to what's the government had said that it was ridiculous to suggest that there were any problems with the work program and that it wasn't helping people get back into work but look this is all being quite embarrassing for the government today not speak to us more about this i'm joined by amery o'reilly for the boycott workfare program thank you very much for joining us a small victory do you think that far enough because on the surface of it it seems like a big deal and a win the obviously the people involved in that but is this going to be as hard hitting and as far reaching well today's ruling is really significant for us it shows that workfare forced unpaid work in the u.k. isn't just wrong it's also been unlawful but you're right it doesn't go far enough

the still a lot to be done one of this my significant schemes mandatory work activity is still intact and really disturbing me the government threatening to bring emergency regulation through to bring workfare straight back in a few to controversial loads of criticism about these government work schemes but they are schemes that are in place in the governor's quite right getting people back into jobs are they not unemployment in the u.k. the moment is a huge huge issue but the government nice that these schemes don't work instead of helping create jobs what they're doing is replacing paperwork the fact. replacing jobs that would exist if the schemes were and place not only that the government using these schemes to massage the unemployment figures because when people are forced to work without pay on the schemes they can't count them as having a job a very strange definition of having a job where not a single person is receiving a wage for them before one graduate who is on the program certainly a small but significant victory in a fluid that k. fed today it certainly means that the government now has to go back to the drawing

board when it comes to their work schemes. to serve for reporting right now with barack obama focused on stricter gun control it's already dividing the country many americans believe he's taken them down the wrong path the state of new york is the first to fall into line flagging up customers who buy large amounts of ammunition and introducing health checks for potential gun owners artie's honest as she is talking to reports now on how the people there are taking it. the big apple business as usual. a few hours by train the empire state capital. as the united states remains divided when it comes to what to do with guns in this country after a recent series of shootings hundreds of anti-gun control protesters gathered outside the state capitol building in albany hear the toughest state law and firearms in the us after the sandy hook elementary school shooting the safe fact was passed a month ago. and those whose guns are at stake are far from

happy joy look like a terrorist because they will look like a fanatic among other provisions the new state law bans weapon sales over the web restrict ammo magazines to seven bullets include stricter background checks and regular research if acacia cuomo signed that law in a maryland i without these three days for to be allowing the people to read it oh. these protesters say their second amendment right to bear arms under the u.s. constitution is being stepped on by the legislators and need to smarten up and listen you get the garbage out in your ears and listen to what the people are saying gun owners believe politicians are looking for criminals in the wrong places i've been going to owner for thirty years and now some of the guns i have in my locker are now illegal have never had a. you are can take my life there's nothing wrong with good law abiding citizens

had firearms it's just it's an assessment because this legislation is not going to stop hardened criminals obsessed with firearms it's not going to stop drug dealers it's not going to stop murderers it's not going to stop latest so what is the answer as the u.s. struggles to find common ground on where the gun debate should take the country next i think the fear finest man anyone does a crime with a gun here. no flap on the hand no no. imagine. what you see in the country while the position of these gun advocates is clear what remains to be seen is whether the u.s. as a whole can ever come to a compromise and especially if you're going to r.t. albany. and the whole debate over that of gun control is also brought up in our special report that's coming your way in just a moment. i

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